Comparative Health Information Management

Find your next career with COMPARATIVE HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, 4e. Updated for the fourth edition, this book explores a variety of professional settings where opportunities abound, including hospitals, ambulatory clinics and medical offices, veterinary practices, home health, long-term care, and correctional facilities, as well as emerging practice areas in consulting and cancer registry. Focused on the challenges of managing and protecting the flow of information across sites, chapters introduce the health care system today, and then delve into specifics of the many HIM roles available to you, enhancing discussions with key terms, self-test questions, web links, and more to add meaning to concepts. Additional features include realistic case studies to help you solve problems, and new “Professional Spotlight” vignettes for an inside view of actual professionals in their HIM careers.Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.